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Senator's son among five men charged with $3.4 million drug importation

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Kwesi Hollis.

Five men were this afternoon charged with bringing $3.4 million of cannabis into Bermuda.The men stood in Magistrates' Court in a packed courtroom with eight police in attendance.Carlos Rogers, 41, of Somerset Road, Somerset, Kwesi Hollis, 36, of Harlem Heights, Hamilton Parish, Kinole Simons, 30, of Malabar Road, Sandys, Bilal Shakir, 39, of Sandys, and Shaun Johnson, 27, of Parsons Road, Pembroke, appeared before Magistrate Khamisi Tokunbo.Mr Shakir is the son of new PLP Senator Cromwell Shakir.Mr Rogers and Mr Hollis were arrested last Friday when they sailed the long-missing Carefree IV into Heritage Bay, St David's. The other three defendants were arrested earlier that morning after marine police on patrol along North Shore intercepted their vessel, which was brought into Penhurst Park dock in Smith's.All five were charged with conspiring with others not present before the court to import the cannabis, and with bringing cannabis into the territorial waters of Bermuda with intent to supply.Mr Johnson, Mr Simons and Mr Shakir were separately charged with handling the drugs.Each of the men received bail with like surety, on the condition that they report three times a week to police.The five will next appear in Magistrates' Court on February 22.

Carlos Rogers
Shaun Johnson
Kinole Simons
Bilal Shakir